Join us at our second International Women's Day as we bring tech industry and peak bodies together to celebrate the achievements of women and have a healthy debate about gender diversity in the workplace.

The event features a catered two course lunch, an engaging panel discussion and an opportunity to network with your peers and leaders within the IT industry.

The theme for our 2020 Women in Cloud Lunch is #EachforEqual, which recognises the important role we all play to advance gender equality in the workplace and building a gender-balanced world.


About this event

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Date and Time

Date: Friday 6 March, 2020

Time: 11:30am to 2:30pm

Join us from 12:00pm for informal networking with formal proceedings at 12:30pm.
A sit down two course lunch and beverage package is included.

Location

Metropolis Events
Level 4/3 Southgate Avenue,
Southbank

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Brendan Major

Head Coach
Essendon Football Club VFLW

Nathan Wheat

Board Member and lead for sponsorship
Victorian ICT for Women
Inese Kingsmill

Non Executive Director
rhipe

Kate Gaffy

Talent Acquisition Manager
Tennis Australia


Veronica Micich

Senior Project Manager
Microsoft

Brendan is the Head coach of the inaugural Essendon Football Clubs Women’s team, competing in the Victoria Football league.

Brendan has had extensive experience in women's football and elite sport and he has overseen the development of over 100 female footballers and multiple coaching staff. 





Nathan is a board member and the lead for sponsorship with Victorian ICT for Women. 

He is a strong advocate for diversity of thought, through diversity in people as a driver of substainable business and industry leadership.

Nathan is an experienced tech director and business solutions strategist, with a background in cloud computing and data centre technologies. 
Spanning a career of over 20 years, Inese is among Australia's most respected marketing executives and is a Non-Executive Director at rhipe

Inese has led marketing, digital, sales and channel functions at Microsoft, Telstra and Virgin Australia. Transformation and change have been common themes that have underpinned her career.

Kate developed her skills as part of an in house Talent Acquisition team at Carlton United Breweries, experiencing first-hand the challenges of not only attracting women to a male dominated industry, but also shifting the mindsets of male managers to hire them.   

At Tennis Australia she has seen a positive shift in gender equality through a holistic approach including employer branding, recruitment strategies, mentoring programs and a women’s league. 


Veronica  has been a senior project manager for Microsoft in the Services division of Secure Infrastructure for the last 5 years. 

She has run projects of medium and large size across the Asia Pacific region, and managed customer programs of projects across all commercial and government organisations. 

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Event cancelled due to Corona virus
Date and Time

Date: Friday 6 March, 2020

Time: 11:30am to 2:30pm

Join us from 11:30am for informal networking with formal proceedings at 12:00pm.

A two course lunch and beverage package is included.

Location

Metropolis Events
Level 4/3 Southgate Avenue,
Southbank